Risotto alla Milanese is a luxurious and delicous risotto flavoured with saffron which results in the beautiful golden colour and fabulous aroma and taste. This recipe for Risotto alla Milanese is quite traditional. To be completely traditional it would have the...

This is a special recipe. Peperonata was nonna Lucia’s speciality. Nonna Lucia made one of the best peperonata I have ever tasted. Maybe it was because she never held back on the olive oil or maybe it was because she never really had a recipe. It was always a...

I think frittata is in my DNA. Growing up frittata showed up on the dinner table regularly and I didn’t always like it. All the other kids at school were eating fish and chips or roast lamb. We ate things they had never heard of and that was hard for a...

At the moment Australian grown spring asparagus are $1.00 per bunch! Yep, that’s correct…$1.00. And yes, they are beautiful. I do hope the farmer is benefits from the high sales of asparagus. Imagine how much work goes into growing, picking and packing...

This month in the Daring Kitchen we were challenged to make Piroshki by Sara at Sassy Suppers. Sara tells us that …”according to Anne Volokh in her book The Art of Russian Cuisine, pirozhki have been sold as street food since Peter the Great’s time. They...

I’m not a very competitive person but when it comes to cooking and baking I’m always tempted by a challenge which is why I back in 2009 I joined the Daring Bakers. Daring Bakers and Daring Cooks belonged to the online baking group The Daring Kitchen. Over...